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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: MR BAN KI MOON <mrbankimoon285@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: MR BAN KI MOON <revmaxwellnewton12@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:58:46 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: YOUR ATM MASTER CARD DELIVERY APPROVAL


WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMDIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONALPAYMENT AND TRANSFER.DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNITUnited Nations Headquarters,New York, NY 10017 , USAYOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS. Greetings, We were authorized by the newly appointed UnitedNation Secretary General, and the Governing body of the United Nations DebtReconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment,recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation,we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed bycorrupt officials of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria whoare trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.  This is to bring to your notice that we are delegatedfrom the UNITED NATIONS in HSBC To pay 50 victims from your country who hasbeing Victims of Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you$2,500,000 USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each.You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims tobe paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for theimmediate payment of your $2,500,000 USD compensation funds. We have beenhaving a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days ago with theformer secretary to the UNITED NATIONS. This email is to 50 selected people that havebeen scammed or extorted money from because of your contract payment executionin any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate themwith the sum of $2.5 MILLON USD This includes every foreign contractors thatmay have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had anunfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due toGovernment problems or irregularities etc. We found your email in our list andthat is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has beensigned by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the WORLDBANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME. We sent you series of emails in this regards butyou did not respond back to us; However, in the course of our routinesecuritization into our Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document of yourfund is intact and very much available, note that United Nations Board of Directorhave sign your ATM CARD in the favor of your name and hand it over to REV. MAXWELLNEWTON Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to fill it, you have to contactREV. MAXWELL NEWTON in charge of your ATM CARD, as he is our UNITED NATIONSrepresentative in UNITED STATE and AFRICA region, contact him immediately foryour ATM CARD VALUE SUM OF $2.5.MILLION USD, This funds are in a ATM CARD forsecurity purpose. He will send it to you and you can clear it in any ATMMachine of your choice. Contact information: REV. MAXWELL NEWTONChief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit.   Email: (rev.maxwellnewton12@gmail.com)Direct Tel: +2347083428477 As soon as you establish a contact with him,ensure that you provide a reconfirmation of your present address as below tothe contact in other for the Officer to effect the change and Re-direct theparcel to your home address. FULL NAME: ADDRESS: PHONE NUMBER: OCCUPATION: AGE/SEX: IDENTIFICATION CARD/DRIVER'S LICENCE: We expect your urgent attention to this email toenable us monitor this payment effectively. Most importantly you shall berequested to pay the sum of $150(Only) by REV. MAXWELL NEWTON as the Deliveryfee of your ATM CARD. Once you contact the Office, please request deliveryoption from him in other to avoid further delay. Yours Faithfully, Secretary-General United NationBAN KI MOONUNITED STATE OF AMERICA



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